Legendary Rock Songs:ANTISOCIAL : TRUST.
Theme:ANTISOCIAL.
Disc:Repression.
Year:1980
To the barricades! “Antisocial” has nothing to envy to the collection of hymns that in the same years in which it was released were billed in England in full effervescence of the NWOBHM. The french band Trust came out with a mind-blowing riff; an abysmal power base, and a slogan that represents the maximum expression of the rock hymn.
Simplicity to the power, they themselves invited at the end of the song to chant their war cry, repeating it to satiety, delivering it as a revolutionary weapon to their public and to the listener who listened to it at home and felt impregnated with their message of freedom.
The riff dodged the repressors with its thrust and the verse made its way through the demonstrating crowd until the chorus was taken as a banner and crowned as a nonconformist flame. Trust will go down in the annals of metal for this “mane shaker” bomb, as the biggest band of the style in their homeland, France, and as clear precursors of thrash and other hardened European metal tendencies.
Well, although it was really on the other side of the pond where this mythical song would end up having repercussion and influence. When “Repression” was released in America by the CBS label, some kids from New York whose minds were forged visionary and innovative new conceptions of the heavy sound, made of “Antisocial” their particular learning manual and dared with a version that would be associated since then with them as one of the mainstays of their repertoire.
We are talking about Anthrax, who covered the song on “State Of Euphoria” (1988) and gave it the fame it now enjoys among the “metal heads” all over the planet. Also our beloved “Suaves” echoed such a hard cut re-interpreting it in their personal way in “San Francisco Express” (1997). At the end of the day, if we like rock, and society doesn't accept us for it, we are all a little “antisocial”?
My people I hope you like this editorial work of this band and about this song, which in its time was originally very little known, but then it was popularized by the metal band ANTRAX, and from there all its history, the song became an icon of heavy metal music. So my people here is the link for you to listen to the ANTRAX version, and I hope you like it. A thousand blessings and see you in a new post with more legendary rock songs.
